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Smaller Funding Cuts a Sign Government Is Listening
Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 9:05 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says today’s pre-budget announcement that the ongoing funding cuts to the Department of Conservation won’t be as deep as planned is a positive sign. More >>
Plan to save seabirds heralds changes to fishing practises
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 11:45 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is welcoming the release of a government-approved statement of intent to save native seabirds, including endangered albatrosses and petrels, from being killed by commercial and non-commercial fishing activity. More >>
Feedback ignored in rush to restructure DOC
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 2:13 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says the timing of today’s announcement confirming the Department of Conservation’s initial restructuring plans shows that the 12 working day consultation process for staff and stakeholders was a sham. More >>
Outstanding upper Hurunui catchment safe at last
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 7:27 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is welcoming a decision by a set of independent commissioners – accepted by Environment Canterbury today - that will ensure that the pristine Upper Hurunui catchment in North Canterbury, including Lake Sumner and the South Branch, ... More >>
Upper Hurunui: Outstanding catchment safe at last
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 5:43 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is welcoming a decision by a set of independent commissioners – accepted by Environment Canterbury today - that will ensure that the pristine Upper Hurunui catchment in North Canterbury, including Lake Sumner and the South Branch, will be ... More >>
PCE's Report Vindicates Campaign to Save Native Eels
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 10:30 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird has welcomed today's report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE), Dr Jan Wright, that concludes that a moratorium on the commercial harvesting of the native longfin eel is needed, if the species is to be saved from ... More >>
Forest & Bird welcomes new marine reserve
Monday, 15 April 2013, 9:55 am | Forest And Bird
The announcement of the approval of a new marine reserve in Akaroa Harbour by the Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith, was welcomed today by conservation organisation Forest & Bird. More >>
Thousands of Kiwis show their love for DOC
Thursday, 11 April 2013, 1:46 pm | Forest And Bird
Messages of support from thousands of New Zealanders are being stuck onto Department of Conservation office windows across the country, as part of a national Love DOC Day today. More >>
Love DOC Day declared for tomorrow
Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 9:00 am | Forest And Bird
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird is asking New Zealanders to show their support for the Department of Conservation on a Love DOC Day this Thursday. More >>
Latest DOC Cuts Threaten Endangered Kakapo Recovery
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 8:23 am | Forest And Bird
1 April 2013 - Wellington Forest & Bird media release for immediate use Latest DOC Cuts Threaten Endangered Kakapo Recovery The proposed loss of 140 frontline Department of Conservation staff announced last week will have a significant impact on the recovery ... More >>
Denniston fight not over, says Forest & Bird
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 10:03 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird has vowed to continue fighting the Bathurst Resources proposal for a 150ha open-cast mine on the West Coast’s Denniston Plateau. More >>
DOC job cuts even worse than thought
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 12:46 pm | Forest And Bird
26 March 2013 Forest & Bird media release DOC job cuts even worse than thought Forest & Bird is disappointed that even more Department of Conservation jobs will be lost than expected. DOC plans to cut 140 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions, ... More >>
DOC job cuts even worse than thought
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 12:46 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is disappointed that even more Department of Conservation jobs will be lost than expected. More >>
DOC staff cuts will threaten wildlife, says Forest & Bird
Monday, 25 March 2013, 9:19 am | Forest And Bird
Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird says a Department of Conservation plan to lay off frontline staff in favour of recruiting volunteers will have serious impacts on the wildlife and landscapes DOC exists to protect. More >>
Forest & Bird welcomes essence of freshwater reform
Saturday, 9 March 2013, 4:53 pm | Forest And Bird
9 March 2013 – Wellington Forest & Bird media release for immediate use Forest & Bird welcomes essence of freshwater reform Independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird welcomes most of the government’s freshwater reform proposals ... More >>
RMA onslaught must stop, warns Forest & Bird
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 12:54 pm | Forest And Bird
RMA onslaught must stop, warns Forest & Bird Environment Minister Amy Adams’ latest Resource Management Act reform proposals, published for discussion today, are a head-on assault on the Act and must be stopped, says Forest & Bird. “New ... More >>
New dairy farmers’ accord misses key lesson
Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 1:48 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird cautiously welcomes Dairy NZ’s announcement of a draft new Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord today, for its commitment to engaging all dairy farmers to adopt best practice standards to improve water quality standards. More >>
Dairy polluters still a problem a decade on
Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 11:34 am | Forest And Bird
Independent nature conservation group Forest & Bird is disappointed at the number of dairy farmers still seriously mistreating waterways after a decade of the Dairying and Clean Streams Accord. More >>
Hundreds of native bats discovered in new colony
Monday, 4 February 2013, 10:47 am | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird is thrilled that a large colony of endangered South Island long-tailed bats has been discovered during a January survey on D’Urville Island, in the Marlborough Sounds. The D’Urville population is estimated to number in the hundreds. The colony ... More >>
Irrigation subsidies will leave country worse off
Friday, 25 January 2013, 4:55 pm | Forest And Bird
Forest & Bird says the private industrial irrigation schemes that the Government plans to spend $400 million of taxpayer’s money on over the next four years will leave this country worse off, not better. More >>
